Emojli: Behind the Scenes and Why You Should Never Build An App

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as an entertaining story of a joke side project growing out of hand, brought up in threads on emoji and side projects.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Tom Scott

Topic

side project post-mortem

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2019

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Tom Scott talked about this when he and Matt Grey made Emojli, the Emoji-only messenger. You can find their talk about it at [VIDEO] However, given that HN is startup central, note that if you are involved in startups and easily offended, you might want …

• There is a wonderful talk by the founders of emoj.li about how it was all a joke which got out of hand. [VIDEO]

• For another entertaining "This went much farther than expected" but for two people who already had full time jobs and no desire to leave them, make a start up, or start a new business in any way, see Tom Scott and Matt Gray's Emojli: an …